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Tuesday, September 06, 2005

More common sense on the fall of New Orleans

Right-wing fish wrapper The American Spectator has a novel idea on who's to blame for this disaster: black people!

New Orleans was ripe for collapse. Its dangerous geography, combined with a dangerous culture, made it susceptible to an unfolding catastrophe. Currents of chaos and lawlessness were running through the city long before this week, and they were bound to come to the surface under the pressure of natural disaster and explode in a scene of looting and mayhem.

Like riotous Los Angeles since the 1960s, New Orleans has been a wasteland of politically correct dysfunction for decades -- public schools so obviously decimated vouchers were proposed this year (and torpedoed by the left), barbaric gangster rap culture no one will confront lest they offend liberal pieties, multiculturalist frauds who empower no one but themselves, and cops neutered by the NAACP and ACLU.

Did you notice the word 'hurricane' in that passage? Flooding? That would be because they aren't there. Unlike the phrase "barbaric gangster rap culture." Because after all, the real tragedy isn't the needless deaths of hundreds-- if not thousands of citizens. It's the hideous crime of grand theft, water and bread.